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Hemp Irrigation

Spent a couple hours last night starting to figure this out. Got off to a great start! My very first fitting that I glued was wrong. Right out of the box! Spent about 20 minutes on the phone with my friend who’s guiding me through this process, and today I need to pick up the rest of the pieces and get cracking! I have (24) 4′ x 50′ beds. Planning on running 3/4″ poly pipe the length of the greenhouse, then out. Last night I spent about an hour burying the line to the first group of beds. Only put it 3-6″ deep, so cars, tractors, mowers could drive over it without issue. Not sure how the PVC that will head the beds is going to work out. Not planning on burying that. We’ll see.

OK. Here’s a picture of the fertigation element loaded in the greenhouse.

(this caption appears in another post…but in case you didn’t see it…)The clear tube with the white syphon is now attached to the nipple to the left of the black thing(injector 1/2″). Actually, I had to downsize the fittings on the top of the injector to 1/2″ from 3/4″ to increase pressure to increase draw to siphon the fertilizer. Could probably bring the injector down to 1/4″ so I could just run the hemp, but haven’t tried that yet.

Spent a couple hours with Brother Jophus on June 10th connecting the A bed pvc together.

Before I go any further, I just have to say that I could never have accomplished everything I have in the last 10 years on this property without the help of SUPER-kind friends and neighbors. Many with skills I don’t or didn’t possess, but many just willing to be a warm body with an extra pair of helping hands. That contribution has been absolutely HUGE! I have nothing but immense gratitude for these efforts…THANK YOU!!!


Love this guy!!!

Spent another 4 after that by myself doing the same on the other side, bed B(I need better names, right?), then another 2 hours installing drip lines and injectors every 5 ft(more or less…).

All in all, I’d say about 16-20 hours installing the drip system, including trips to the plumbing supply place(buying local when possible), time on the phone with my irrigation guru(namaste), time researching online, and time just scratching my head saying,”What the heck do I do now?” All in all, I’m extremely proud that I learned some new skills and can sleep better at night knowing that I have a system set up to irrigate my plants should they need it. Hey! I’m set up to irrigate 250 plants! Feels pretty good!! To date, we’ve had some pretty dry stretches and I think my plants look pretty dam good if I don’t say so my dam self.

And when it was done…there was much rejoicing!